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Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
The Destiny of COney Island.

The popularity of COney Island as
place of resort is said to be rapidly de-
clining. When the attractive beaches
on the east end OF the island were
thrown open to the public, and means of
reaching them were provided, a few
years ago, the people of New York and
vicinity were charmed with the fact that
they had so convenient and pleasant
a place for an outing so near at hand
and they hOcked thither by thousands.
But the prOprietors of the beach ho-
tells made special effort to cater to the
tastes of the liquor and beer drinking
class, the island became the grand cul-
minatiOn and centre of the Sunday ex-
cursiOn business, and the rOwdy and
disreputable element gained more and
more the upper hand, till quite, self
respecting, temperate man ora reputa.
BILE woman felt almost out of place there
The sporting" class has had high earn.
ival for some time, but at last the hotel
men and others are finding out that
their patronage don't pay.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
Maryland Prohibition Ticket.


The Maryland prOhibitionist party
last week nominated the following
ticket:
For Governor, Summerfeld Baldwin,
Of Baltimore city.
For Comptroller, Thomas E. Wright,
of Dorchester.
For Attorney General, jaime Pollard
of Baltimore city.
The platform asks for the prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of liquors,
amendment to naturalization laws, a
constitutional convention, equal taxa
tion. the disfranchisement of bribe
givers and takers, and checking the
power of corporations.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

The amount of -four consumed on
this Peninsula says the Milford Chroa-
icle is far greater the amount of wheat
raised. This to people living in the
counties of Delaware, and the northern
tier of Maryland counties, may appear
as incorrect; but when the amount of
wheat raised in lower Sussex. in Mary
land and in Virginia is considered, it
is evidently that the surplus in the nor
thern part of the Peninsula is easily
consumed by the lower half From
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and
Wilmington, cargoes of flour arrive
throughout the year, that are consumed
by farmers, sailors, mechanics and resi-
dents of towns.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
HUM Jenkins Dead.

Just after eating his breakfast on the
1st, inst, Hum Jenkins, a retired
wholesale shoe merchant, was stricken
with apOplexy at his residence, No.
1901 Green street, Philadelphia, and
died few minutes later. Deceased was
in the shoe business in Philadelphia in
1850, and afterward lived for a number
of years in Camden, ,"Del., where he
was born. At the time of his death he
owned a number of fine farms in the
neighborhOOd of Camden, and was said
to be very wealthy man. He was a
brother of Patience Jenkins, who was
for a generation one of the leading
preachers of the Friends Society in the
Peninsula, and who died at Camden a
few years ago, aged nearly 80 years,
and half-brother of E. HUM, of Wild
Cat place, near Lebanon, who is now
travelling in Europe. He was 8S years
old and a member of the Society ot
Friends.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
Prospect for Fruit in the Hudson
Valley,

Peach and grape growers all along
the Hudson valley are jubilant. The
growing crops will not only yield the
largest, but also the finest, harvests on
record. Peach trees are heavily laden
with red, juicy, tempting fruit, the
first shipments of which are now being
made. The trees have been nOn-prO-
ductive for five years, and the long rest
has resulted in causing the fruit to
have a fineness of fibre and mellOwness
which it never had before. The bulk
of the late yield will mature during the
latter part of September, though thou
sands of baskets of exceptionally fine
Shocks, etc, will be sent to the New
York market all through August.
The Concord grape is king on the
west shore of the Hudson between
Cornwall and Catskill, distance of
nearly seventy miles, and in localities
around Fishkill, Tivoli and German
town on the east. In the aggregate
the crops will exceed the calculations
of the most sanguine producers fully
One-third. Concord grape men like f.
J. Wygant, of Marlborough, o. J. Till
son, of Highland, J. HasbrOuck, of
New Paltz and others will each ship
this season from 100 to $50 tons. Hun
dreds of other producers will ship as
many as seventy tons, while hundreds
more will ship lesser amounts. In not
a single locality is failure reported
and growers who take pessimistiC
views of everything are at their wits
ends to find something to grumble
about, or on which to base fOrebodings
of evil. Wine will be made in large
quantities. Already Frenchmen and
Italians are purchasing shelled grape
berries in advance. These men say the
Concord makes an excellent vintage
Albany Times.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

Ponder it, Messrs. Villas and Holman
and all your associate Cheap.Jack re-
formersl The British Government has
decided to subsidize the Canadian Pa
cifc route for the transportation of
mails across the Poetic to Japan by a
new line of steamers. You are unwill-
ing to pay the American steamship lines
fair rates for carrying the mails, and
are antagOnizing every effort to pro-
mote the revival of the commercial
marine. England extends liberal aid
to new steamship lines.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
Iced Tea.

Iced tea is a delicious summer
drink" said large consumer yester-
day, " but half the people don't make
it right, and as a consequence it is not
nearly so popular as it should be. Let
me give you the recipe. First fill a
goblet with ice, then drop in about two
teaspOOnfuls of powdered sugar and
pour in your tea from a pitcher. The
tea should be very weak in fact, there
should be just enough of the tea juice
to take the taste of pitcher of water.
When your glass is filled squeeze the
juice of half lemon in and you have
nectar. If you want to shake it up
you'll have a bead and your neighbOr
will think you are drinking beer. But
the bead won't make it taste any bet
ter"
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
Sights in Europe.


The following is from a letter writ
ten to friend in Smyrna by John T.
Porter, of Scranton, Pa, son of Abel j.
Porter, of this town:
LONDON, JULY 14TH, 1887.
Dear Friend Il suppose you will be
surprised to receive a letter from me
in this far away country, but tits SO,
and am enjoying myself hugely. 1
left New York on June 25th and land
ed at Queenstown, Ireland, on July
End, travelled through Ireland across to
Wales, through to North of Wales and
England and arrived in London on
July 9th, remained there several days
and came through France to Paris on
Monday last. Paris is the finest and
busiest city l ever was in. I did very
we'll until l struck France where met
a foreign language that was very hard
to manage.
Everything is very different from
America or even in England, where
they do things more as we Americans
do.
had a very pleasant trip crossing
the ocean, got little sick the first day
but soon recovered.
1 go from here over to Germany then
back to London and Liverpool and or
the 2Srd of July will sail for New York
1 met two gentlemen from Princeton
N. j., and they have been travelling
with me which has made the trip very
delightful.
1 see by the papers you are having
very warm weather in America, bu
we have it pleasant here; it is neve
so hot or so cold as it gets over home
1t does not get dusk until 9 o'clock P
NJ, and you can easily read an hou
after that time on the streets.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

The following thought probably Oc-
CURED to one of Puck's staff while in
church recently: "If there is a man alive
who has ever yawned a yawn clean out
and exhausted all its possibilities of
yawniness, without leaving untackled
stretches of pleasurable extension in
every joint-why, that man has known
the happiest sensation that earth can
afford, and he is ripe for higher joys"
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

The total abstinence ideas of Mr..
Powderly are evidently not shared by
the Assembly of Knights of Labor in
in Wilmington which disbanded be-
cause of the order prohibiting the use
of beer or liquors at pic-nics and enter
tainments of the Knights. The Ameri-
can Knight is not to be curtailed in his
right to get drunk.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
CARPETS! CARPETS !

Having made arrangements to
sell Carpets by sample, ask all
who want Carpets of any grade
or pattern to call and examine the
sample. Prices guaranteed as
low as the same goods can be
sold in New York or Philadel-
phia. Carpets, Oil Cloths, Rugs,
Mats, Mating, Carpet Lining.
Ottomans, Stair Rods, Druggets
Window Shades, Plain and Col
ored Scrims, &c, &c, &c.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

The Nebraska State Journal is evil
IDENTIFY an advocate of home rule. Mrs.
Langtry has been playing in Lincoln
lately, bat the Journal dismisses the ia
nous beauty by simply saying:
"There are in Lincoln 100 women who
arejust as attractive in face and form
as Mrs. Langtry is, and any one of
whom would make a more capable ac-
tress with like privileges and train.
ing"
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

Have you magnificent wardrObeP"
the manager asked, addressing the ac-
tress who had just applied for an en-
gagement.
"Why, no; I've no wardrobe at all.
I'm in the burlesque line, you know"
"Ohl I see. All right. ."-BOStOn
Courier
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
Wonderful Curan.

W. d. Hoyt 4 Co., Wholesale and Retail Drug
gists Of Rome, Ga, says: We have been selling
Dr. Kings New Discovery, Electric Bitters and
Bucklens Arnica Salve for two years. Have
never handled remedies that sell as well, or give
such universal satisfaction. There have been
some wonderful cures effected by these medicines
In this city. Several cases Of pronounced Con-
sumption have benn entirely cured BY use Of a
few bottles of DR.. Kings New Discovery, taken IN
connection with Electric Bitters. We guarantee
them always. Sold by Jas. P. Hofecker eb23-1y
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
craatIv r~o,t.d

Not a few of the citizens Of Smyrna have recent
lybeen excited over the astonishing facts that sew
eral Of their friends who had been pronounced BY
their physicians as incurable and beyond an
hOpe-sutering with that dreaded monster Con-
sumptiOn-have been completely cured by DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption, the only
remedy that does positively cure all throat aud
lung diseases, Coughs, Colds, Asthma aud BrOn-
chitls Trial bottle free al Jas. r. Honecker's
Drug Store, large bottles 81 feb 28-1y
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

Buffalo is organizing a company
which is to invest 500, 900 in an effort
to end way to utilize the water pow
er of the Niagara River. The company
should call on Jay Gould before it is a
day older.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

The revolutionary war ended about
1OS years ago, but the pension list of
revolutionary heroes and their pension
able families has not ended yet.
Commissioner Black, of the Pension
Department, granted a pension on Tues
day last, to Mrs. Mary Casey, of Wash
ingtOn, Fayette county, Ohio, as the
widow of John Casey, a revolutionary
soldier. She had married the veteran
of the revolution when he was rs years
old and she only Is, and she has been
his widow since 1S45.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
A Summer Song.

w. w. Story, the poet, says in "a
Summer Song"
Oh, ifBummer would last forever
Oh, ify youth would leave us never
On. If the Joy we have In the spring
Forever its happy song would sing,
And love and friendship never take wing,
But stay with us forever
Then-ah, then ifsuch gifts were given,
Who Of us mortals would ask for heaven
He probably didn't write that poem
with the mercury at the altitude it at
tanned during the last hot wave.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

The New Orleans PicGyune says: No
one can realize how much money there
is in the world until he reads the assets
of insurance companies printed on the
backs of their folders.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

The Detroit Free Press has discovered
that "it was Boston boy who started
the fashion of calling his father by his
given name, and the fashion lasted
about thirty seconds.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

Gen. Clinton B. Fisk says the Pro-
hibition party will poll five times as
many votes in the coming Presidential
election as they did in the last one.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
prunl.snne... or the Liquor Habit.
POSITIVELY CURED BY ADMINIsTERING BR
uAIMEsl GOLDEN spECIEIC.

POSITIVELY CURED BY ADMINIsTERING BR.
HAINEs GOLDEN SPECIFIC.
1t can be given in cup Of coffee or tea
without the knowledge Of the person taking
it is absolutely harmless and will effect a
permanent and speedy cure, whether the
patient is moderate drinker or an alcO-
holic wreck. Thousands ofdrunkards have
been made temperate men who have taken
Golden Specific in their coffee without their
their own free will. 1T NEVER FAILS.
The system once impregnated with the
Specific it becomes an utter imppssibility
for the liquor appetite to exist. For full
particulars, address GOLDEN SPECIFIC
Co, 1856 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

An exchange says that "the air as
sumed by most ladies at a fashionable
gathering is only put on for the Ocea-
siOn." Well, it seems only proper that
they should put on something.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
Fair Saturn has a silver ring,
The moon a ring of flame;
The sun has got no ring at all,
But he gets there just the same
Nebraska State Journal.

Ten years from now we shall laugh
at ourselves" remarks the Boston Her
aid. This is frank admission, but
some Of your cotcmporaries don't seem
inclined to wait.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
August.

August, month when Summer lies
Sleeping under sapphire skies;
Open all the windows wide,
Drink the orchards fragrant tide
Breath of grass at morning mown
Through the leafy vistas blown
Hear the clinking of the scythe
Sound melifuent and blithe.
August, month when everywhere
Music floats upon the air
From the hGrps of minstrel gales
Playing down the hills and dales:
August. month when sleepy cows
Seek the shade of spreading bOughs
Where the robin quirks his head
Contemplating cherries red
August month of twilights when
Day half goes and comes again:
August days are guards who keep
Watch while Summer lies asleep.
frank Dempster Sherman IN 81. Nicholas 70
iUgust.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

Travellers in Egypt need no longer
go far up the Nile in order to catch
glimpse of temple ruins on a grand
scale. The site of the Exploration
Funds latest discovery and excavation
the great temple at Bubatis-is a
short distance from the railway at Tag
azig, between Ismailia and Cairo, and
not very far from the battlefield of Tel
el-Kebir. DR.. Naville hopes to clear
the entire temple area from end to end
another season. Mr.. Griffith estimates
the length of the temple at 900 feet
from the gateway to the back of the
building, with an average width of $50
feet. These dimensions fall but little
short of the great temple of ZOan dis
closed by Mr.. Petrie. The Egypt Ex-
ploration Fund is doing a great work.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
Strange Experience with a Needle.

The Milford ChrOnicIe gives the fol-
lowing strange account OF what hap
pened to Jos. Bradley's wife (Mr.
Bradley is we'll known about Smyrna,
his first wife being a daughter of the
late James Truax) in her experience
with needle:
Fourteen years ago Mrs. Joseph
Bradley,-then Miss Barber,-ran a
needle two-thirds of its length into her
foot, from which she suffered for sever
al weeks, but was never able to get the
needle out, and the sore finally healed.
Since that time she has never expert
enced any symptoms either favorable
or otherwise of its location until We'd
nesday Oflast week, when a sore came
on her head and from which the needle
exuded., Mrs. Bradley has no memory
of ever being wounded with a needle
at any other time, and can scarcely
credit the fact that for fourteen years,
this small piece of steel has been trav-
elling through her flesh.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

Senator 81 Zeb - Vance Is reported as
saying: "All / know about finance is
tbat n takes two better names than
mine saI',s 70 ret money out ofa bank"
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

The first salt "sack" that was ever
known was was when Lot shook" his
disobedient wife.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

1.-THE moaning Of the tiedn is a poetic
heading for the divorce column.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10

IL is a question whether ice kills
more people in the winter than in the
summer time.
Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
Furniture of all kinds.

ParlOr and Chamber suits Bureaus. Bedsteads,
Chairs Lounges. Tables. Stands. Mattresses Spring
Beds and every thing in the Furniture Line, guar
quality of goods. jan 5.I
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-26

VoLAPUK is the name of the new uni
versal language now spoken by 10000
persons, mostly Spaniards Germans and
French. 1t was invented by German
priest who was an accomplished inguist,
having mastered twenty-six different Ian
guages. The new language is purely ar
tificial and its grammar is SO simple that
it can be mastered in one hour. A hasty
glance at the written language is not very
assuring so far as ease OF acquisition is
concerned. 1t is full of sesquipedalian
words and bears a striking resemblance
to the Bohemian language. A Bohemian
might not be able to detect any resem-
blance. Should the language continue to
grow in popularity it stands fair chance
of becoming universal for commercial
purposes.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-26

The removal of Commissioner Bently
by President Garfield was thought to be
at the instance of the pension claim
agents whom Bentley displeased by curb
ing their rapacious attacks on the treas
ury. Senator Sawyer of this state now
throws some light on the matter. The
pension attorneys raised $4,000 for cam
paign purposes to be used in Indiana in
Garfield's interest but demanded, as a
consideration, Bentley's removal. This
was agreed to. Sawyer learned of Gar
fields purpose and received his promise
that no change would be made before
Sawyer was notified, so that he might
have an opportunity to defend Bentley.
The first Sawyer learned of the matter
after the interview, was the announce
ment of Dudley's appointment On ask
ing an explanation the President told
him he had to remove Bentley because he
could not withstand the pressure. Saw
yer explains that was the last he had to
do with Garfield, and never saw him
again.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-26

HISTORY does not furnish more ma
lignant address than that said to be issu-
ed by the Irish college at Rome on the
Irish question. 1t denounces Gladstone
and Parnen and says the latter has made
| traitors of the Irish people. 1t threatens
| to excommunicate the Catholics who
| favor home rule and oppose the coercion
| bill which the tory government is at
tempting to pass. 1t says that Parnell
and his followers are still under papal
condemnation and that their success
would be to make religious desert of
Ireland.
The memoir was published on the very
| day that the Orangemen of Canada as
| saulted O'Brien The whole thing is so
| vindictive, so much in the interests OF the
| tory government and so demoniac in its
hostility to the Irish people that it is
pronounced by many forgery. Such it
undoubtedly is as it goes further in de-
nunciation of the efforts of the Irish to
secure home rule than the most pro-
nounced tory would.
If this memoir be genuine it simply
makes this college at Rome one of the
worst abettors of tyranny in the civilized
globe, wholly devoid of sympathy and
even ordinary christianity.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-26
JOHN SHERMAN is having a boom

JOHN SHERMAN is having boom in this
state for the republican nomination for
the presidency. This indicates pretty
low state of political morality. John
Sherman has furnished the blacklist page
in American history. For his work in
Louisiana he deserves that his name be
mentioned with execration. Instead, he
is found, with the blot of infamy on his
brow, persistently seeking to become the
chief executive of the nation Now that
partisan feeling has greatly subsidized
there is no one who does not regret the
infamous proceeding whereby the will of
men who took part in it and profited by
it should not be forgotten. 1t is vicious
lesson to teach the youthful student of
history that a crime Of that nature can be
successfully perpetrated and that the
guilty ones do not only suffer condemna-
ton but that the chief cOnspiratOr receiv-
ed the support of great party for the
highest Office in the nation. John Sher-
man is the last man in the United States
whose name should be mentioned in con-
nection with that office. 1t would be a
disgrace to the country to have him NOM
mated by any party. 1t would be dam
nable to elect him. The republicans of
Wisconsin do themselves no credit in
pushing his claims. They should have
learned by this time that it is unprofit-
able as we'll as dlshonorable to take as
their leader man whose reputation is
tainted.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-26
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